STU Writing Centre Citing Sources in Chicago Style Notes

Notes appear throughout your paper. They tell the reader where you got your information from. You should use a note whenever you mention ideas, facts, words or opinions that you found in another source. Notes appear as superscript numbers (e.g.14). These numbers should be placed directly after punctuation—usually after the period at the end of your sentence. The numbers correspond to either footnotes (which appear at the bottom of the page) or endnotes (which appear at the end of your paper). In Word, notes are numbered automatically. To insert a note, use InsertFootnote. The first time you cite a particular source in your paper, your note should contain complete publication information for that source. Afterward, notes referring to that source will only include the author’s last name, an abbreviated form of the title, and the page number (if you are referring to a fact or words that appear on specific pages). For example: Boudreau observes that Halifax “experienced dramatic socio-economic changes during the period from 1918 to 1935.”1 During this interwar period, deindustrialization and rising unemployment led to increased crime rates within the port city